posted this off to various Delta Airlines people just now:

To: [email protected],[email protected],[email protected],
[email protected],[email protected],[email protected],
[email protected],[email protected],[email protected]
Subject: the CAPPS program
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:51:05 -0500 (EST)

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“Dear Delta,

I am relieved that there are as many options in air travel as there
currently are. Although I have flown with Delta on several occasions
in the past, it will be easy and affordable for me to fly with
another carrier should Delta choose to implement the CAPPS program.

Please understand that in our society at this time, my privacy,
including the details of my background, are a potential source of
both inconvenience to me should it be released to marketers, and
power over me should it be gathered by others. Once this information
is gathered, it often cannot be retracted, but instead may be
collated by other potential large databasing initiatives, and used in
ways that I will not neccesarily know about or have control over.
That information is mine and not yours, and I will not surrender it
to you in order to be able to fly with you.

I am a normal white middle-class male with nothing to hide that is of
significance to an airline. But I cannot in good conscience
participate in a program that erodes personal rights and freedoms.

Thank you for your time,

Hugh”

Ouch, there was a really long sentence in the middle there that I didn’t notice.

CAPPS 2 is a “a mini-TIA that will data-mine every air passenger’s travel history, living arrangements, and other personal and demographic information. ” (from bOINGbOING). If the airline industry is half as vulnerable as they claim they are everytime they go begging for some more corporate welfare, Delta must be mighty sensitive to a little boycott action. Saddle up.